---- ~631 December, 196~ {< j . ' ~ . .- ·_ 90· P-er Cent of . Ne-w Hospital-:Med f.irst 'ManpoW:er--. Trainees~~ Hired· Ben€/its /or Retirees WASHINGTON -In 'the· first Operating E_ngineet·s Local ·_ Union 3, already in the fore­ group of workers retrained under front for wages and conditions of its worl{~ng membership, the new Manp~·wer - Dev'elopment is taking~two giant steps for a better life for its retired mem· 4-ct, 96 .per cent have_been ~ plac_ed hers and their wives. " ( · • in actual jobs, Labor Sec. W. Wil.­ --~ Ef_!'ective January 1, 1963, a $100 monthly pension ~ax- lard Wirtz announced ln a "prog­ - imum_will become a reality for all retired members. drawing ress· 3 epor~." benefits from .the Operating Engineers Pension Trust Fund. The group was small, Wirtz Also on January 1, retired membe1;s and their spouses pointed out, covering only 28? will begin to enjoy hospital and medical protection won trainees in· Connecticut and Cali­ through their UJ1ion. - . - . fornia, of whom.253 r•romptly get Announcement of the new benefits was made early this jobs for ·which .they had - been month by Local 3 Business Manager AI Clem, as co-chairman specifically trai~~d. - of the Pension Board of Trustees and of the Retired Operat- "We r-ecognize this is too pre- . ing,Engineers Jrust ·Fund.· - - . liminary a return" to allow ·con­ · Co-chairman of the Trustees for botla funds are Brother clusions ·about the future opera- · Clem for the union ·and contractor Felix Sirf for the em· tions of the -program, the. secre- ployers. - - tary toid a news conference. TRUSTEES . Nevertheless "it . is .. obviously a . The. other union trustees are Pres. Paul Edgecombe, Vice JP.atter of --~licou~ a g~in ~;{t; ' - and-it Pres. Jerry D_owd, Rec.-Coi'r.· Sec. W. V. Minahan, Fin. Sec. A. is the government's hope that· the J . HQpe·, Treas. H. T. Petersen-and Conductor Don Kinchloe. I . - :. f~t~re p~ tter~ . ~· w~ll ,_\l~Y~l?P iz:t F.-, Ames Jr., W. Nicholson, A. G. l{aisch Jr-., • :w_ - J. _. t ·su:m-lar (e:rms." · -r· Bt~li- ~'l)~~,ct · P-~~ii~t- J ohtn ~_1fart~ eh_s . ~n·~- _C_!la :r,.Ies "H \!~~~~ - ~re _ the . - ·- Wi~tz ~n ~q~; ~gd Jl). at: 279 : train- . ,.o .. er.. emp 1oyer rus ees. ,_ . ing . proje c ts ·-' h ~ve . ;o~ ~:oe1 n .ap-· ·- .··· (O'uf :p_ehsion in emb~rs krio~ better than ·anyone· else cari proved under terfns of' :_ fiie'~ new tell them· ,how valuable the ,::$1<00 monthly "normal" pension s'tatute and -that 10~-601 workers · will be to them in their years of well-deserved retirement, are· enrolled or/ have· - ~ompleted - ~ ari'd how much security their families can derive from the training. The projects -involve a 36-month p~nsion guarantee, :_whkh means that the checks ·goveni.inent corinintment of near­ will continue going to the wife up to three years after the ly $13. millipn of -the $70 'million member _qualifies for pension, even if he· should pass away Congress appropriated . ·Jor the during tbat time. first year of the_-,:>ro.?;ram -and are WORTH $13,593 spread a'ci:oss 36 states. But'it is useful to note that if our _member had to pay for this protection himself by' buying a standa!'d $100 per month annuity poli~y, starting at 42 yea.rs of age, which is the aver­ age age 'of the Local 3 membershtp, he would have to pay /Local3 - $49.25 per month from age 42 -to age 65, a total of$13,593 . •• Profiles Als(), the new hospital and-medical benefits for the 1~ etiree and hi_s ·wife actually mal{e his pension worth at least '$115 a - month, as our union's welfare consultants say it wQuld cost at least $15 a month for a medical insurance policy that would not be quite as goo'd. r . The commercial health insurance policies which are avajl· able· to senior cit,iz~ns, for example, contain a lifetime max-­ irpum limit oil ben·efits Which .goes as loW as $800. Our Local 3 hospital-medical policy for· pensioners pays· on each dis­ ability, without a lifetime·maxlmum amount. _ _ PAYABLE"' FOR JANUARY. Under. the new scale of Pensidn b~nefits, all those ~etired -members" now ·receiving -'$B:Q.--a .month, will get $.100 a month starting January 1. 'Those now ·receiving $30 11 month will · get $50, and those getting amounts ,i,n between these sums v;;ill receive proporti~mat~ - ~ric't~ea_~es ..in their· monthly .pen· • SlOllS~ - . - . - . - . - . -_ ( _The new J?ension ag10unts .h~v~ --: been compl!ted for each , re~1ree and w1ll be included in -tfie checks received in the -last- week of December. · ' :___ -: -- . - - The'· new health prot~ction..for ·r~tired members ·wilJ pay­ $.12 a· day towa·rd·hospital board and :room for a ·maximum of 'GARTH A.'PATT-ERSON <AL R'AiNs ' · 31 days-'on . I ' . · each "di s~bility 'of tlf~-- covered meml:ieF or his \.vife: - . Garth A. Patterson·; _Clper_ating "' Af Rains, .who was born and William W. Woodyard of Sac­ ' Ther~ is , an allow~ ~ -ce' of.·up to $150 for h9spita:I ' ext_ras, . -Engineers Local 3 District Exec- raised i n ····an· 'unlikely-sounding 'ra'mento; District Member· of the for each 1llrre:ss. · - · - : - · , . · · ·· - - SURGICAt: SCHEDULE · utive Board member for the lOth place, Humansvi-lle, Mo., but has -· Operating - . Engine~rs Local 3 - District, Santa .Rosa area, is . a lived all his adult life as a· con-_ ' Executive Board fr~llk.Distr_ict 8, A surgic_al schedule sets v.ariou~ amounts to be· paid for man who has circulated in two struction- worker _on the West Sacramento, sums up . his work­ operations, up to a-:maximum o~ $300-for-each operation . worlds and knows in ~ very defi- Coast except for a spell in the ing. and unign ·· career in these An allowance up to $40 is provided for diagnostic, X-ray nite way why- he prefers the Army, is the Di.~tric t Executive two phrase~: - "Most of my work and laboratory services in the hospital. -· world he's in. ..:: Board member fro-in the Nevada has been in c·onstruction or re- The retfred me_mber arid-_ his· wife are eligible to claim- n. Garth, 39, is a native of Iowa. district. lated industry .. I have been a these benefits in any month i_n -which a pension _check goes B He served in the Arn~ ed Forces Rains ·came to -the Coast right . union member'- ever since i to the. home. This me·ails that·even-if .the in~mber has passed ' • for four years in World War II; after finishing. high_ school and · s'tarted working." · .. qn, tli:e'wife continues to be .eligible if pension check_s are still \• two: .of 'them in Italy',- then re- was emplo)led on such major"con:. ·:Brother \Voodyard, ,52, is'a na­ c_oming under the 36-mtmth pension. guarant~e. - ' \ turned to graduate from Drake struction projects· _as Camp Rob- · t~ve - of MissoiirLb~f has lived in p,_· printed blookleUistin~ the benefits and -explaining· the - -Continued on.Page 10 - ~Continued on Pdge 5 ,,., .• -.- ·'-- ----=Cotitinl{ed·on Page 3 . l ' ~ / -Continued on Page 2 . i;r • .; r< ;' '. ,~~···] Page Two ENGINEERS NEWS December, 196i San Francisc~: Trouble Don't Have to Eat' Dust ·On Golden G·afeway Job ··- Dust is an inescapable condi- . tion of most earth-moving opera­ By JERRY DOWD, GEORGE BAKER and BOB SKIDGEL tions and materials hv.ndling, but Work is spasmodic in San Fran- a big, fancy Travelodge Mote_l now the operator doesn't have to cisco, but not bad. The biggest which is going -up on Fisher­ "eat" the dust. portion - of placements conlinues man's Wharf. That's . the happy word from to be on short-ten~1 jobs, but The shipyards, however, have there is a lot going on. slowed down to pructically noth- Loca] .3 members on a particular­ Case Foundation, subbing ing. ly dusty ·San Francisco job who ground work. on .Perini's Golden M!J·anwhile, there have . been a have been u·sing a new protective Gateway renewal project, is run- number of contract awards as­ device, the "~hitecap" 'filtered­ nwg into nothing but trouble. suring work for 'the future, in­ air, helmet. ·- They were going to pull up the eluding a submarine outfall sew­ old piling that honeycombs that er job which went to Oscar C. Unlike 'thei conventional respi­ • area and put in the new piling, Holmes Inc. of Menlo Park · for rator or dust mask,. the Whitecap /­ but.found th~ttli~ o\d sticks wo~'t ~ $311,700, . another force main and is a rig looking like a "space hel­ c~n;.e~ out an~ I. th'e-YJ lra;y.e .to.) dtJ'llll ·~ interceptor sewer at the Lake met" that combines· in one piece, -- nglib t~r.ougJf '!h2m. Merced sewage pumping station a ·shockproof plastic hard hat, A big, special drul ng was to Prodanovich Inc. of Oakland transparent face shiP-ld and neck broJight out. from th&cEast cap- for $148 725 and a North Point shroud that completely encases ~bl~ · oi : ur:il_ling.. ·h:'01es,• u_P to 120 eollectin~ sewer to S & Q Con­ the operator's head <.nd combines •mcl'fes<m 1dranrete'l: r"amb 120 feet str.uction of South San Francisco to chew ~hrough for $477,777; the functions of protective head­ deep, but having .the_ol d.Lw o~od , has;, slow ed : i.h.down gear; goggles and air-purifier.